The nuclear industry is always a net consumer of energy. To meet increasing demand if nuclear capacity is increased, it results in fossil and other fuels to be guzzled in other types of power plants built to meet forever increasing demand. This goes on raising the health risks to all life and other risks like earthquakes. Nuclear is never an option for meeting energy demands.

Thursday, May 09, 2013

Right to life prevails absolutely over nuclear energy programmes.

Re: Koodankulam: A Court In The Supreme Contempt Of Its People
By P K Sundaram

Quote 1:"The
Supreme Court’s verdict on Koodankulam rests on three hugely contested
premises: the judges’ belief in the necessity of the nuclear energy for
India’s progress, their faith in the country’s nuclear establishment to
perform its role, and the judges’ notion of the larger public interest
and the apprehensions of small sections which should make way for the
country’s progress. Not only have the judges given judicial sanctity to
these contestable propositions, but have also completely overlooked the
Koodankulam-specific brazen violations of the government’s own norms,
raised by the petitioners."

Quote
2:"In retrospect, the struggling people of India would find approaching
to the Supreme Court in such matters pointless, and counter-productive,
as the courts themselves are part of the system which has failed to
address the widening gap
between the aspirations and lives of the deprived masses and the
mainstream
notions of ‘larger public interest’. Prayers before the judiciary on
such matters ends up legitimising the same ‘experts’ and disastrous
notions of progress that the people have been fighting against."(Italics mine).
COMMENTARY

Nuclear
energy programmes year after year consume more energy than they
deliver. If one studies the energy audit of the indian nuclear
programme(Google search) one sees the truth of this audit. India will
get no power from nuclear energy ever and will land in a situation
thirty years from now burning coal twice as fast as now. The safety on
which Kudankulam or any nuclear fuel cycle boasts of is based on witchcraft which substitutes the
effects of external radiation for the infinitely more dangerous internal
contamination and prescribes a dose to the public of 1 millisievert per
year when in contrast the European Committee on Radiation Risk 2010
allows not more than a tenth of this! The nuclear waste problem is
insoluble(See
KOLAR,SELLAFIELD AND YUCCA MOUNTAIN!) and nukes require 100% safety
which cannot be satisfied because of human fallacy, obvious even at
Kudankulam and Jaitapur. With nuclear programmes, we will be causing at
least 40 Bhopals a year of additional cancer deaths.See Kudankulam and
Cancer Deaths by Google search. This is the biggest scam of all time.
Oh! Well even one Bhopal was enough for the people. Thereafter came
Chernobyl(1986)(What were you doing?I wrote a leader in the Kannada
daily Prajavani of 29 May 1986 on the negative energy audit of nuclear
energy programs: What were NPCIL/DAE/AERB doin?),Naroara(1993)(Why were
you sleeping on the turbine replacement advice by GEC?), Kashiwasaki
Kariwa(2007)(I warned of Fukushima then itself, what were you doin?) and
Fukushima(2011)(What were you doin?)-All these were triggered in
addition by the World's dams(See by Google search Glaring lacuna in meeting water needs-The
Chernobyl disaster). You do not know and do not know that you do
not know. He is wise who listens with a multi log attitude and
renouncing all attachment to happenings in the world. But Calumny it is ,
says the conscience which requires being good in thought word and deed.
People must go far beyond the trivial laws which allow nuclear weapons
and nuclear energy and on a worldwide basis outlaw them all
effectively-one 100 percent.

Regarding
'the judges’ notion of the larger public interest
and the apprehensions of small sections which should make way for the
country’s progress.', we can dismiss this notion by the argument of the
energy audit and health considerations above by stating that there is
no benefit at all to society by incurring contamination of our bodies by
nuclear fuel cycles because the energy delivered to society is much
less than the energy consumed by the nuclear industry. It is thus a
question of avoiding useless actions while preserving health on a
permanent basis.

Thus right to all life absolutely prevails
regarding the nuclear energy programs as well as nuclear weapons. Thus
nuclear energy should never be an option and regarding nuclear weapons,
there must be 100 % nuclear disarmament worldwide.